Stories by Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the new book, "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow." (Wiley, March 2008) He publishes the monthly "Hightower Lowdown," co-edited by Phillip Frazer.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when Republicans in Washington would turn soft on crime?
Posted on Dec 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The politicians don't want to think about it, the media establishment has turned a blind eye to it, and the Bushites are trying to shout it down - but it's rising anyway, getting bigger and bigger all across the country.
Posted on Dec 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Here it comes -- another Gooberhead Award, presented to those in the news whose tongues are going 100 miles an hour ... but who forgot to put their brains in gear.
Posted on Dec 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
How useful is it to have Bob Dole scolding us? Do we need this?
Posted on Dec 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
How can an incumbent U.S. Senator who had a war chest of $6 million and a 20 point lead in the polls, running as a Democrat in a state that has never sent a Republican to the senate, be in such a pickle?
Posted on Dec 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Homeland Security might be a new agency, but it's the product of the same old corrupt politics.
Posted on Dec 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
As we gather around Thanksgiving tables this year, we can be thankful that, while the profiteers and politicians are headed one way with our food system, We the People are going in quite another direction.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The scam is on! Bush and his congressional operatives are preparing to rush through a whole trainload of legislative nasties, claiming that George W has won a "mandate" for his total corporate agenda.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Gosh, I miss Harvey. The one election night loss that I most lament is that of Harvey Pitt. His name wasn't even on the ballot, but he was a goner before the polls closed.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The corporate milk giants behind the "Got Milk?" campaign are trying to entice a small town to change its name to Got Milk, California. Does commercialism have no limits?
Posted on Nov 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Sixty-one percent of the electorate stayed home on Election Day this year, thanks to the repugnance of big-money corporate politics. But the real lesson to be learned is that this majority will be a political powerhouse to anyone who can organize them.
Posted on Nov 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Food-borne bacteria kill 14 Americans a day, hospitalize nearly 900 more, and Bush is still siding with meat-packing corporations to oppose better inspections.
Posted on Nov 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush's picks for the SEC's Accounting Oversight board is a hand-picked group of Washington insiders ready to scratch each other's backs, pretending to push reform, but quietly making sure that nothing really changes
Posted on Nov 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Like flood waters, political corruption takes the path of least resistance. And just when you think you've got the corruption dammed up, it squirts out somewhere else.
Posted on Nov 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
How else to explain the cynical flip-flop behind George's decision to gut the very corporate reform legislation he had so loudly taken credit for only three months ago?
Posted on Nov 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Could the administration possibly take a minute or two from beating their chests and trying to out-do each other with their war whooping against Saddam Hussein to notice that we've got a little problem here on the homefront?
Posted on Oct 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Harvey can't seem to get the hang of being on the public's side.
Posted on Oct 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet
I don't know whether to scream or laugh when George W gets up on his little war pony and starts screeching that "we've" got to go to war in Iraq.
Posted on Oct 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet
"Dollar Bill Phil," the money-grubbing senator from Texas whose 24-years in Congress were notable mainly for his, shall we say, "coquettish" willingness to do legislative favors for corporations.
Posted on Oct 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Never mind that the vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is all too real of a threat, Bush can't be convinced.
Posted on Oct 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Think the wave of corporate scandals will chasten executives? Think again.
Posted on Oct 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
If a press conference is held and the media doesn't cover it ... does it make a sound?
Posted on Oct 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Just when you thought corporate greed could not get any more slimy ... here comes Dennis Kozlowski rising out of the ooze.
Posted on Oct 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
If you're a Bush, there's nothing like an Iraq attack to deflect your political problems.
Posted on Sep 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed the law creating Labor Day as a national holiday.
Posted on Sep 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
For a guy who claims to be a "rancher," George W sure is stepping in a lot of cow patties.
Posted on Sep 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Rest assured, Jack Welch, the now-retired CEO of General Electric is doing just fine.
Posted on Sep 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In politics, it's often not your enemies that cause you the most grief ... it's your friends.
Posted on Sep 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Time for another Gooberhead Award [Beanie cap breakdown] - presented periodically to someone in the news who has their tongue going 100 miles per hour ... but forgot to put their brains in gear.
Posted on Sep 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Exploding in rebellion is the most American thing one can do. And it's the only way to preserve a democracy under siege by corporate interests.
Posted on Sep 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Excuse me, but who the hell elected the WTO to write the laws of We the People of the United States of America?
Posted on Sep 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. flag represents the flag of the pamphleteers, Sons of Liberty, the abolitionists and suffragists, Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. -- freedom-fighters all.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Sen. Thad Cochran and Rep. Charles Stenholm showed their dediction to the job post-9/11 by going on congressional junkets backed by lobbyists and attending horse races.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Is it possible that while Dick Cheney postures politically, he has previously profited from playing corporate footsie with the country that he now brands a terrorist state? Yes.
Posted on Aug 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The people want everything when in comes to Enron -- from appointing a special prosecutor to giving money made on the scandal back to the investors they duped.
Posted on Aug 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Looks like Dubya has picked a winner in Thomas Dorr, the new Undersecretary for Rural Development. He's already rigged his books and was forced to return money owed to the government.
Posted on Aug 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush brags he sat with "ordinary people" at the Economic Forum. Too bad the ordinary people included fat cat CEOS like Charles Schwab, who's given $400,000 to Bush and the GOP.
Posted on Aug 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Dubya's telling Americans to entrust their Social Security funds with private investment groups owned and managed by irresponsible corporations like Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.
Posted on Aug 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Congress is giving itself a nice $5,000 pay hike thanks to a sneaky little appropriation bill for the Treasury Department it passed rather quietly.
Posted on Aug 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush is calling the polluter tax -- a tax on corporations that contaminate the air, water and communities -- "burdensome." Worse, he's unloading the costs onto taxpayers.
Posted on Aug 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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